Writing Happens

eric mccarty
2 min readDec 7, 2021

Writing happens:

my commitment has been to put words on the page, to write everyday, without a miss. Yet it’s not a vow I made to myself, not even a practice really. It’s a joy. Writing is the moment of my surrender, of not knowing the next word that may appear and simply trusting that it will. Each morning, soon after I wake, I sit at my desk, coffee at hand, and let the mystery unfold. In this light, I am not really an author, but a…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student